The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1887-03-19

floors, respectively. Both were awakened
by the glare and made their exit by means of
the fire escape.
Minnie Stone, domestic, declared that
there was no one on the fifth floor when she
left it.
Mr., Spencer of Syracuse, escaped in his
night gown. His hands, face and neck were
badly burned.
In front of Dingen Brothers store lay
dead man covered with a mattress. He had
black hair and full face, which was cover
ed with blood and could not be recognized.
Mank Osborne, day clerk and ASST slant
manager of the hotel, is missing. He slept
on the south side 1t is believed he perished,
James Mcclure, night engineer at the post
office, got into the hotel soon. after the fire
broke out. He saved a man who was coming
down stairs in his night clothes and who was
prostrated by the flames and smoke. After
getting him out he returned and tried to res
cue young girl from room on the third
floor, but she was lost in the fire. Mr. Me-
Guire said: 1T was terrible to hear her cries.
For some reason she cotild not open the door
and l could not break it in. Finally was
driven away by the fire and smoke and had
TO leave her to her fate.'
X. IL. Humes occupied a room on the third
noor. lie jumped through window to the
flames. He made rush for the Eagle street
door, going through the kitchen skylight and
out through the flames and escaped He left
nye persons on the kitchen roof. and thinks
tney must all have peiished. as they did not
attempt 10 follow him through the fames
Chief Hornung of the Fire Department
says: Ihe number of people rescued by
Lle nremen Is about twenty to twenty-five.
We did all we could to rescue them. We got
Two streams INTO the corridor of the hotel,
and that moment the flames were shooting
up that big staircase and elevator way be-
yond the reach of the hose. We tried to
pay D0th streams upward on the fire, but
tnere was so much screaming of guests and
calls for help from the windows that we
called OIL most OF the men from the hose
and let the building go up for while, giving
all our attention to the ladders. DIN the
building yelled, save the people, and the
boys helped man the ladders on the outside
putting up two on the Main street side and
the short ones on Eagle street. There was
need for them, too. 1t was horrible sight
to see the people jumping from every side
The cool headed ones were rescued all right
but some would not wait"
Henry B. Rumsey was on the top story.
lie ran down one flight of stairs and started
Tor q rear window. Seeing little girl in
the hallway. he returned, got her and
Jumped with her in his arms on to Bunnell's
Museum. The skin and the beard on his
lace were burned off and he was severely
5Durned about the body He will probably
George Z. Michaels, commercial traveller.
had thrilling escape. He tried to get out
by climbing hand over hand along an electric
hight cable to the roof of the Museum
Three others got on the wire, and it broke
down. Mr.. Michaels fell about 35 feet, but
broke no bones.
The Injured.
Mr.. Stafford, the proprietor of the hotel.
does not think there were more than six per-
sons lost in the fire. The following is a list
of the injured:
AT Emergency Hospital, Edward Wheelan
OF 25O Liberty street, Newburgh, burned
about the hands and feet.
William j. Mackay of Niagara Falls. feet.
back and arms burned.
Perry Davis of New York, hands and feet
injured.
II. b. Smith of Syracuse, face, bands and
feet burned.
AT the Sisters Hospital, all being very se-
riously injured: Mary Nolan, badly burned
about the body, may not recover.
Maggie Mubrach, seriously burned about
the body, face and hands.
man named Nichols, very seriously in
jured.
Fanny Harvey, seriously burned.
AT the Fitch Hospital, Frederick X. Moore
OF Cleveland, o.. severely injured about the
face, hands and feet.
VIM. A. Haven, of Helena, Mont, burned
about the hands, feet and face, and suffering
from shock. He is Chief Engineer of the
Northern Pacific Railroad.
Edwin A. Finch Of Scranton, Pa, suffers
from serious burns about the face hands
and feet; not in dangerous condition.
Henry u. Rumsey of New York suffers |
from burns all over the body.
g. M. Dubois of Syracuse is severely burned |
all over the body.
Jacob Kohn of New York, badly injured |
by jumping from the fourth floor. He broke |
his back and one leg. and was also burned |
about the head, arms and body.
May Wltte, of this city, burned about the |
face and arms.
At the General Hospital, Matthew Shan
lon, slightly injured.
Clinton Bidwell, burned in the face.
Nellie Welch, face and hands burned
Mrs. Kate Pierce, slightly burned.
j. Z. Gilbert of New York is at the Tiff |
House, terribly burned. His head and right |
arm are bound up, and a mask covers his |
face.
W.. S. Dewey of Rochester is badly |
scorched about the face. He rushed for the |
stairway, but was driven back by the flames /
TO the ladders.
f. W. Woods Of Chicago. made rope of
with few blisters.
A number of others who were injured are |
at various places, and their names have not /
yet been learned.
The body of the woman recovered this |
morning was identified as that of Kate Wolf |
of Lockport
The father of Mary Welch, servant at |
the Richmond, this afternoon reported to the |
coroner that she was missing. Her cousin. |
who is in the hospital, saw her endeayoring |
to jump, and that was the last seen of her. |
1t is believed that her name must be added to |
the list of dead. Another servant girl was
reported missing this afternoon. It is i'm |
possible TO state definitely the number of |
killed and injured, but it is believed the |
killed will not exceed eight. if that many.
There are no additional details to the re-
port except the following revised list of the
dead and dying. As far as can be learned
the dead are as follows:
Kate Kent, servant.
Minnie Kelly, servant.
Kate Pierce, servant.
Wilson Purcell, of r. G. Dun Il Co.
Mark Osborne, day clerk at the hotel.
Mr. johnson, Toronto, railway man.
Kate Wolf of LockpOrt, servant.
The dying are:
Jacob Hahn, New York.
Henry NJ. Rumsey, New York.
Maggie Mulech, Buffalo
Mary Nolan, Bnffalo.
Edward Whelan, Newburg.
The Hotel.